From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id HAA23674; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:36:10 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from concorde.inria.fr (concorde.inria.fr [192.93.2.39]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id HAA23421 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:36:09 +0100 (MET) Received: from ep09.kernel.pl (ep09.kernel.pl [212.87.11.162]) by concorde.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h2E6a5f08602 for ; Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:36:05 +0100 (MET) Received: (qmail 12331 invoked by uid 566); 14 Mar 2003 06:36:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2003 07:33:49 +0100 From: Michal Moskal To: Oliver Bandel Cc: caml-list@inria.fr Subject: Re: [Caml-list] OCaml popularity Message-ID: <20030314063349.GA16830@roke.freak> References: <200303111023.LAA09578@pauillac.inria.fr> <20030311190230.13615.qmail@web10304.mail.yahoo.com> <20030312171242.GA11435@redhat.com> <20030313021517.GA29102@force.stwing.upenn.edu> <20030313095232.GC347@first.in-berlin.de> <20030313205010.GA7956@force.stwing.upenn.edu> <20030313211702.GA884@first.in-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030313211702.GA884@first.in-berlin.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-PGP-Fingerprint: CF89 1B14 11BE 1CC9 2CA3 7497 5E32 69B4 BC71 B4C2 X-AntiVirus: scanned for viruses by AMaViS 0.2.1 (http://amavis.org/) X-Spam: no; 0.00; michal:01 moskal:01 malekith:01 pld-linux:01 caml-list:01 oliver:01 bandel:01 wroclaw:01 ocaml:01 gcs:03 interpreter:03 wrote:03 pld:03 perl:03 scripting:05 Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk On Thu, Mar 13, 2003 at 10:17:02PM +0100, Oliver Bandel wrote: > E.G. scripting... some I/O-stuff right from the beginning, > and you can do some things, where you have used Perl before... I don't believe replacing perl scripts with ocaml ones is The Right Thing to do... Just because in simple cases perl or sh is going to be twice as short. OCaml mainly favors programming in large. I know OCaml quite well, but still do scripting in perl or sh. Example: extended lambda calculi interpreter written in OCaml + test suite written in perl. -- : Michal Moskal ::::: malekith/at/pld-linux.org : GCS {C,UL}++++$ a? !tv : PLD Linux ::::::: Wroclaw University, CS Dept : {E-,w}-- {b++,e}>+++ h ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners